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The average smoker absorbs over 80 years worth of natural background radiation every year that they smoke, this is due to the radioactive Lead and Polonium in cigarettes that is absorbed into the lungs and stays there. Meanwhile, the maximum dosage a US radiation worker is allowed to absorb per year is just 30 years worth of natural background radiation per year.

So how does that make you feel? You're absorbing more than double the maximum radiation that someone who works with Uranium and hazardous waste does?

@ThisAndThat smoking can be a habitual addiction just the same as physical. Almost always physical if at all, but there's a component of being a nasty habit as well. If you hang with the same crowd who happens to all smoke together often, how likely are you to remain clean?

Being in the presents of other smokers can causes apprehension which causes the physical withdraws which is related directly to the addiction. If the physical part is missing the addiction has not yet formed and that person should consider them selves very lucky at that point. There are very few that mess around with cigarettes that could say they are that lucky. For that few at that point they could say because luck was on their said that long that it's only a habit. For the rest it is a very strong addiction.

@Mekkalyn And I've known a few people like that too, however those people for whatever reason, they were able to dodge the bullet and they shouldn't be factored in when it comes to smoking addiction because they haven't been truly addicted to tobacco and it's not a fair assessment to those who are.

@ThisAndThat I'm just saying that she's not incorrect for saying it's a habit. Obviously for a lot of people it can be a habit, and for others it's an addiction. I feel like it starts out has a habit and then once you're hooked it turns into an addiction.

@Mekkalyn Once thing about tobacco is that it's super addictive and I would have to say probably about ninety nine percent of those messing with cigarettes are addicted because most people with any amount of common sense at all would just put them down and not continue to temp fate if they had that chance. Tobacco is known to be so addictive that a none addicted person could try one single cigarette and start having cravings and withdraws a week later. I can tell you from where I stood the addiction came very quickly and we near impossible to stop it. And had it not been for ecigs I wouldn't have been able to stop.

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To give up should be your decision otherwise you will fail. Your boyfriend should accept you and your habits. Changing you is surely changing the very thing that attracted him to you anyway. YOU. Give up for you not because others want you to. x

You would take the risk of accumulated damage while also putting your boyfriend at risk for second hand smoke? Just because your Dad is "very healthy" right now doesn't dismiss the certainty that damage is being accumulated. No smoker should be considered "very healthy", they are just fine for the moment.

Smoking is much worse than drinking. One person drinking a beer isn't going to make anyone else drunk, whereas smoking affects all people in your general area. My grandfather on my mom's side smoked so much, I'd go to the basement and there was a haze of smoke.

@M_A_X Maybe because this post isn't about drinking?It's not like she said she has a drinking and smoking problem... just a smoking, so why wouldn't he target the thing she's... you know.. asking the question about? His preference on drinking is beside the point.

Do you want to quit smoking? Is that something you want for yourself? If not, you'll probably have to end the relationship, since it will be a deal-breaker. I'm a non-smoker, and I would never date a smoker.

You should quit smoking. Not because he wants you to, but because it's really bad for you.It's also really expensive, especially over time.Think about all the things you could have better used that money on?

My partner and I have never smoked and will never smoke. We'd rather have good health and extra money to spend, but that's just us.

It's nice he cares enough about you to want you to quit. He can't force you to do something you don't want to do so if you don't want to do it, then don't. I don't smoke but i think if a boyfriend i really liked asked me to give up a habit i would consider it. Maybe ask him to quit something he likes and make it a challenge to do together so you are both involved! Good Luck

No, because she isn't the only one "harming" others, if it's not her its some one else and for fourth. Even if that was a reason to quit, she wouldn't be doing it for herself therefor she will relapse. @Logic_Hammer_Bear

You should def quit.. not just for him but for yourself. It's a bad, unhealthy habit. Also, people around you can suffer from second hand smoke. I look at it this way.. it's expensive and only will harm you. Don't be fooled that just because you're okay now, it won't harm you down the road. There's absolutey no benefits from smoking.

@ThisAndThat ok. it starts out as a bad habit and some people can still stop if they want to. i used to smoke and then one day i decided to stop, so i just did. never smoked again after that. it was nothing but a habit.

Yeah, I was talking to someone in England and she was saying how at her local beach in England it is so disgusting to be there because smokers where she lives in England have left so many cigarette butts in the sand you pick up one handful of sand and also pick up about 5 or 6 cigarette butts to.

Yup, that is because a cigarette butt can take up to 15 years to biodegrade and even then the filter can never biodegrade. If you combine that with 4.6 trillion cigarette butts littered every single year around the world you can see it is a massive problem.

@Applefan1 Absolutely. Even if they're not dropped at beaches, or in streets, they're gonna be packing landfill like crazy. That's just disgusting. I will never understand why people even start smoking now, when we know all these things.

Yeah, well when littered cigarette butts wash down storm water drains and into the sea which then leak lots of nasty chemicals into the water like cadmium. It is said one butt can pollute up to 500 litters of water. Fish also mistake them for food, eat them and die and they also block the storm water drains. If it does not rain birds eat cigarette butts and die. They also look nasty and sometimes you can smell them to. So combining that with 4.6 trillion littered every year makes you able to see the problem littered cigarette butts are.

Something you should know about smoking, smoking does a great majority of its damage silently and usually the results will show up very suddenly all at once. If I were your dad I would try transitioning to electronic cigarettes if he doesn't plan on quitting smoking.

He probably tried the wrong type of ecig. He should give something like Vuse or Vcigs a try. And also it depends on his level of nicotine how many cigarettes he smokes a day. Some people will require a higher level of nicotine to stop. Some are able to quit with 18 ml or 1.8 nicotine. The levels go all the way up to 30 something or 3? Also the steam from the cigarettes can take some time to get use to probably a day or so. I was able to quit smoking in one day and I've smoked over 40 years.

If he smokes a pack a day or more he'll probably requires something like 2.4 also referred to as 24 ml. If I were him I would give something like Vuse a try. I'm not a fan of Vuse because their cartridges don't equal a pack like they say they do. But at least they are smooth exactly like a cigarette and he'll know for sure they work. Then from there all he would have to do is find something that's equal to Vuse. It's a lot cheaper to vape than smoking to. Usually a refill bottle will cost anywhere from $5.00 on up depending where get the bottle and they'll last in most cases two weeks. Compare that to regular cigarettes.